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Monday, April 3, 2017

Rose with Butterflies in Midnight Blue and Gold

I always chuckle when I see memes with cats and TP because I have (at least) one who loves to claw at the rolls, too. I don't know which one(s) it is or when he does it, but I find it torn up all the time. I suspect SkippyJon! Here is a shot I just took of some of his handiwork:

You'd think eventually we'd get smart and keep the TP on a shelf that they can't easily reach.....but, nooooooooo! Like all tolerant cat-lovers, we just shake our heads and let them keep on destroying our house and all of our belongings! Ha!!!

Hi, Friends......I am here to share a card with you that I made inspired by several challenges:

3. Winnie & Walter Rerun Challenge #18 - The Big, The Bold and Extras- I am very excited to see that W&W has another challenge up and going already!! Their Rerun challenges are where they feature a stamp set from the past. The design team members make cards with this older set and Shay asks you to make a card using it, also. If you don't have the set, you can use a different W&W product to make a card inspired by one from the design team. Fun!!! (Ends April 30)

4. Darnell's April Fool's Boo-Boo Hop and NBUS #11
- This is a Just For Fun hop where we are asked to link up a card that
has a Boo-Boo in it and/or that uses some Never Before Used Schtuff.
(Ends April 11)

Here's what I made.......

For my NBUS item, I used my DCWV Mercury Glass Stack. I am soooooooo IN LOVE with this super-shiny marbled cardstock in metallic gold, rose gold, copper, and silver that I had to buy 2 extra pads before I could use any of my first one!!! lol....

(I wasn't planning on this being a boo-boo card, but one of my dies slipped when I was making my cuts and the tip of the leaf next to the flower was cut off. I fixed it with gel pens, but you can still barely see in the photo that the tip is shinier than the matte outline.)This rose is from my most favorite-est, most beautiful-est, most gorgeous-est of all my die sets from Winnie & Walter (and I have quite a little stack of them!).....their Winnie & Walter - In Bloom: Maggie's Roses Cutaways die set. I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!! It's not the one I use the most....but every time I use it, the beauty and elegance of the magnificent rose just shines through so brightly!! This die set just so happens to have the same roses that are in the featured Rerun set: The Big, The Bold and Extras, but Shay had not mentioned this as a "qualifying set" to get creative with so I still based my card on inspiration from one of the designers. I decided to use a blue outline on the rose just as Lydia did in her gorgeous stamped roses here.

Other supplies used include:Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Audrey Cutaways die set (for the tiny butterflies)Pilot - Metallic Gold Extra Fine Tip Marker (for markings on butterflies)
Distress Ink in Chipped Sapphire (for edges of panels)
Faceted blue rhinestone and large gold sequins from stash
Scraps from my stash for panels. (BONUS: These little butterflies and leaves are small enough to cut from the leftover bits and pieces from other die cuts. Yay!!)

I think that is all for now. Thank you so much for stopping by! Your comments make my day!! Please join in these challenges with me, too.

You are such an enabler, Janis, with your beautiful shiny paper and your scrumptious rose die! The colors are so striking and you rocked the sketch!! Thank you so much for joining in my NBUS Challenge #11! Hugs, Darnell

Oooh, what a pretty card! I love that midnight blue and the contrast with the DCWV Mercury pattern. Had to chuckle at your inability to use even one sheet until you had back up papers in your stash...I do the same thing. I'm glad you were able to bring yourself to cut into that paper though, because the results are gorgeous.

Haha, I've been lucky in that most of my cats have had no interest in toilet paper shredding, but I do remember one time when our Bubby cat started one roll going and managed to pull it out through the bathroom and down the entire laundry room floor!